Rests and supports for cigars, cigarettes and pipes



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RESTS AND SUPPORTS FOR CIGARS, CIGARETTES AND PIPES Filed Au 27, 1953 IN V EN TOR. L/AMES //AL r kw; am

United States Patent RESTS AND SUPPORTS FOR CIGARS, CIGARETTES AND PIPES James Healy, Bronx, N. Y.

Application August 27, 1953, Serial No. 376,880

4 Claims. (Cl. 131-240) This invention relates to new and useful improvements in supports, or holders for cigars, cigarettes, or pipes, and it has for its object to facilitate the care of said articles during smoking.

The said device or support is secured to a base which also has an ash-tray mounted thereon. The bottom of said support and ash-tray consists preferably of a semi rigid, or rigid material such as hard rubber, wood, or plastic, to give it sturdiness. A separate surface or layer of any suitable material, such as foam rubber, sponge rubber, felt, etc., may be attached underneath said bottom as a protection also against scratches in a table; such bottom being non-skidable.

A further object of my invention is to employ a number of flexible members or fingers, made of springy material such as rubber, plastic, etc., so arranged and constructed that they will'be able to receive and embrace cigars, cigarettes or pipe bowls.

The device includes a tubular member which embodies a number of separate fingers integral with the lower portion of the tubular member and adapted to grip the article, which may be inserted or disposed in an opening of a tapered shape located at opposite sides of the tubular member.

One or more fingers on each side of the said openings or gaps are formed with longitudinal slits near the bottom, so as to facilitate a further spreading out of the fingers, oropening of the tubular member for the purpose of accommodating articles of many sizes which may be inserted therein.

In order to obtain sufficient springiness of said fingers and maintain such springiness, the fingers may be curved slightly inwardly at the top of the tubular member.

With the above and other objects in view, this invention consists of the novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, forming part of this application, and in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all views, and in which:

Figure l is a top plan view, showing a cigarette placed on my devised support.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of same.

Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view, taken on the line 3-3 in Figure 1; while Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 1, but showing a pipe placed on said devised support.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, the numeral indicates a support or rest for a cigar, cigarette, or pipe.

Said support is mounted on a base 11 of hard rubber, with a softer layer 12 of a material such as foam rubber, attached underneath said base.

Upon said base may also be arranged, as shown herein,

an ashtray 13 adapted to cooperate with said support 10, in receiving the ashes of a cigarette or cigar.

The rim 21 of said ashtray may be formed with gaps 14.

The support 10 consists of a number of separate fingers 22 connected together at their bottoms and integral with the tubular member.

The said fingers are so arranged that there is a gap in the opposite sides of said support, as shown at 23, adapted to receive a cigarette or pipe.

In order for said fingers to spread out and enlarge the gap 23, when necessary, two fingers, one on each side of the gap 23 are formed with horizontal slits 24 at their bottoms; said slits being about one-half of an inch in length.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

1. A device of the class described comprising a base, a tubular body and an ashtray mounted closely together on said base, a plurality of separate fingers connected together at their bottoms and forming said tubular body,

the latter being provided with two oppositely disposed gaps adapted to receive a cigar or cigarette, the fingers adjacent the gaps on each side of said tubular body being formed with slits at the bottom thereof, whereby to permit a widening of said gaps, the said tubular body and fingers thereof being formed of resilient rubber.

2. A device of the class described comprising a base, a tubular body and an ashtray mounted closely together on said base, a plurality of separate fingers, slightly inwardly curved at the top and connected together at their bottoms, forming said tubular body, the latter being provided with two oppositely disposed gaps adapted to receive a cigar or cigarette, certain of the fingers on each side of said tubular body being formed with slits at the bottom thereof, whereby to permit a widening of said gaps the said tubular body and fingers thereof being formed of resilient rubber.

3. In a device, as claimed in claim 2, and wherein said fingers on each side of said body adjoin said gaps.

4. A device of the class described comprising a base, a tubular body and an ashtray mounted closely together on said base, a plurality of separate fingers, slightly inwardly curved at the top and connected together at their bottoms forming said tubular body, the latter being provided with two oppositely disposed gaps adapted to receive a pipe in one of these, the fingers on each side of said tubular body and in close proximity to the gaps being formed with a slit at the bottoms thereof, whereby to permit a widening of said gaps, and said ashtray having a rim adapted to support the stem of said pipe, the said tubular body and fingers thereof being formed of resilient rubber.

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